When we arrived to Niagra we were caught in traffic, I suddenly notice cars getting bigger and people in them as well, everything is enlarged and then honey points out numberplates and all becomes clear, Texas, New York, Mississippi, aha we are approaching U.S.A. And then out of blue suddenly there was the actual boarder right in front of us, I've never been to U.S.A so I felt exited to get a glimpse.
Our hotel was very close to the boarder and as we were driving there we discovered that our hotel was also very close the the actual Niagra falls, the first time I saw the mist out of the car window, well, it was a 'wow' moment, the falls are powerful, so much water just falling off the cliffs day after day after day. We settled in at the hotel, it was called Michael's Inn, haha, and it looked like the 70's. Next morning we woke up early and had room service, breakfast in bed, for our anniversary and all. And we were set of to explore the Niagra, to reach the view platform it took us oh about a minute walk. We snapped pictures of the falls, the U.S.A one and the Canadian one, shaped like a horseshoe, creating mist and misty clouds, it was beautiful as ever.
There were tourists, shitloads of tourists, it kinda ruined the whole amazement of the falls and replaced it with a fight for a good spot to see the falls, Japanese tourists were taking pictures of anything and by anything I mean really anything. I wonder what their 'slide shows' sound like back at home "Well, this is the chewing gum, stuck on the pavement near the Niagra Falls, and this is the wall of some building and this is a grass leaf and this is a pole and this is me with the pole, me with the chewing gum, etc." American tourists are complete opposite to Japanese, they don't take almost any pictures, they drag their obese arses around in search for french fries, that they end up eating at same fast food place they would eat back in States, amazing. After eying the falls for a while we headed to the city, well, more accurately we headed to the "entertainment central", Niagra is a mini-Las Vegas.
Streets packed with casinos and funky museums and attractions and horror houses. Talking about the horror houses, we went to one, it was called the Dracula's Haunted Castle.
We went there pretty casual minded, honey was the one exited to go, guys, you know, so I just went along, figuring it would be pretty juvenile and not scary whatsoever. Oh boy, was I wrong. They have real people, REAL people creeping up to you in total darkness making noises, whispering, following you, barking, making noise, flashing light in your face so you get even more blinded in darkness, damn. First as we entered it seemed ok, just dark, it was so dark I couldn't see my own hand and I could only hold on to honey to make sure he is in front of me, it was just the discomfort of darkness that I felt, that was till the first time we heard a loud bang next to us and my honey screamed out loud that lead me into screaming out loud and for the rest of the way I was terrified, screaming,holding onto my honey's sleeve, making it all sweaty, almost in tears. I wanted to go back, ugh, I wanted to get out, really, it was too scary. I mean having machines moving and making noise is safe, machine can't chase you like real people do, these guys can talk back at you, maybe even touch you, fuck, in total darkness. I was so happy when we got out, but, my face twitched for like half an hour after, we sat at a Pizza Pizza restaurant recuperating, shivering and feeling freaked out. We decited to go on sky wheel to get some ease back in our spirits, what's more relaxing than a ride on the sky wheel?
The freaking wheel was first of all enormous and second of all, fuck, no one told us that instead of one or two rounds, we would have to sit trough 5 rounds and it takes a while and after second round you're bored of sights and all you can think of is, fuck I need to pee, and you're stuck in this cabin going round and round and round, each time you reach the ground you are all happy thinking, now we get off, but fuck, you never do. When we finally get off we rushed for toilets, the one we ended up with had self-flushing pots, that I had never seen before, therefore I nearly had an heart attack when it flushed itself, esp. after the horror house. Oh yeah and we bought salt water taffy, mmh, i like it, I like it a lot. And it was time to leave, because we were going to drive back to Montreal, it altogether took us oh about 9 hours in the car, well we did get kinda lost, well not lost but wrongly directed as we drove into this small town called Cornville (yeah i know, creepy name) at pitch dark and there was a moon in the sky colored red, like blood, and creepy small town people making bonfires in their yards for no reason and it was dark, no street lights, dark. We were hoping to find a gas station, and the radio was playing "No Cars Go" by Arcade Fire and suddenly the station was cut in by other station that was pretty much playing the soundtrack of Psycho, you know, the shower scene so what you heard was pretty much like "We know one place where no ships go, iik, iik, iik, iiik, iik...no cars go, iik, iik, iik, iik", tabarnak, and as we drove in darkness it became pretty clear there was no gas station there and we turned back but wrongly and ended up driving the wrong direction on a freaking highway for many kilometers before having a chance to turn back. It was freaky, oh my how freaky but eventually we made it home, tired as ever, my butt was dead for few days from all that sitting in the car, but it was worth it, we had so much fun, just the two of us :D
So, this was our anniversary weekend in short, woohey.
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